an unattributed author: >> Cool yum feature: >> >> # yum whatprovides libstdc++.so.5 Przemyslaw Gawronski: > True, that is cool :) You can even bypass that step, in most cases, and just do an install command line with the file that you need, even when you don't know the package it belongs to. There's no harm, you're asked whether to proceed before it does anything. e.g. yum install <filename> -- (This box runs FC7, my others still run FC 4, 5, 6, & CentOS 5.0, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.